The digital enclosure of agriculture is accelerating, and a voluntary coalition of open-source agrifood system platforms is building the federated infrastructure to fight back. Join Open Food Network, LiteFarm, Our Sci, and C-Group Cooperative for a progress report, a frank airing of unresolved strategic and technical questions, and an open invitation to help shape what comes next.

This workshop will explore a set of future governance pathways for an open-source exit to Community, using the LiteFarm farm management app experience as a case study and ‘test’ case to identify challenges and opportunities for governance and operational models as open-source projects seek to exit from an initial start-up incubator phase and/or institutional home. These pathways explore what a dedicated governance wrapper might look like for safeguarding the technology’s open-source mandate, ensuring financial sustainability, and demonstrating to farmers, external contributors, and institutional adopters that LiteFarm will remain transparent and community-led into the future.